| Abstract [eng] |
SUMMARY Subject. Interpersonal Interactions Processes in Drama Therapy Group During Second Year of Covid-19 Pandemic: Thematic Analysis of Older Adolescents’ Experience. Scientific Problem. During the pandemic society was facing with very serious ordeal concerning human health and welfare. Adolescents being extremely vulnerable social group needing socialization skills experienced this time as extreme challenge. The thesis is one of few so far in this scientific field work which analyzes social and psychical health of disturbed by pandemic adolescents. Dramatherapy being preventive and psychosocial risk reducing method was extremely handy means working with distancing from each other adolescents. With the help of gamesome therapeutic interactions drama therapist was aiming to encourage them to communicate more actively, get to know each other and themselves more closely by more intensely engaging into interpersonal relations. Objective. Reveal/disclose experience of the process of older adolescents’ interpersonal interactions during drama therapy sessions in the context of Covid-19 pandemic. Participants: 10 sixteen-year-old adolescents from one of Vilnius gymnasium. Methods: Qualitative research strategy. Data collection using a semi-structured interview and remote method – invitation to reflect on semi-structured questions. Data analysis performed using inductive thematic analysis by Braun and Clarke (2006). Study conducted 2021 Sept – Dec. Results. Three main themes were generated in this thematic analysis: 1. Drama therapy experience and interpersonal relations; 2. Drama therapy experience and feelings; 3. Drama therapy experience in change of Self and environment cognition. Conclusion. Covid-19 pandemic is a strong risk factor increasing the threat of adolescents’ psychical health and general condition. Important evolutional processes of adolescence which are emotional, social and identity development have been possibly changed in the course of isolation. Drama therapy containing in itself creative spontaneous and playful resources and using wide spectrum of adoptive interventions proved itself as therapeutic tool being able to strengthen adolescents’ psychosocial welfare and normalize emotional social and identity development. Keywords. Drama therapy, older adolescents, development, identity, pandemic, qualitative research. |
